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John-Paul regularly writes and lectures on family law topics for  courts, law societies, bar associations and the public. He is a frequent speaker for the National Judicial Institute, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, the National Family Law Program, the Continuing Legal Education Society of BC, the Trial Lawyers Association of BC, and the Legal Education Society of Alberta, and has provided the family law course for upper-year law students at the University of Calgary. His written work has been published by organizations including the ''UBC Law Review'', ''Canadian Family Law Quarterly'', the ''International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family'', the ''Journal of International Aging, Law and Policy'', ''The Advocate'', the National Judicial Institute, the Nova Scotia Department of Justice, slaw.ca and ''The Lawyer’s Daily''. He is a member of the advisory board of the ''Canadian Journal of Family Law'' and the author of [http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/fl-lf/spousal-epoux/calc/index.html Obtaining Reliable and Repeatable SSAG Calculations], published by the Department of Justice.
John-Paul regularly writes and lectures on family law topics for  courts, law societies, bar associations and the public. He is a frequent speaker for the National Judicial Institute, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, the National Family Law Program, the Continuing Legal Education Society of BC, the Trial Lawyers Association of BC, and the Legal Education Society of Alberta, and has provided the family law course for upper-year law students at the University of Calgary. His written work has been published by organizations including the ''UBC Law Review'', ''Canadian Family Law Quarterly'', the ''International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family'', the ''Journal of International Aging, Law and Policy'', ''The Advocate'', the National Judicial Institute, the Nova Scotia Department of Justice, slaw.ca and ''The Lawyer’s Daily''. He is a member of the advisory board of the ''Canadian Journal of Family Law'' and the author of [http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/fl-lf/spousal-epoux/calc/index.html Obtaining Reliable and Repeatable SSAG Calculations], published by the Department of Justice.


John-Paul is a recipient of the CBA's National Pro Bono Service Award, the UBC Law Alumni Association's Outstanding Young Alumnus Award and the CBA British Columbia's Harry Rankin, <span class="noglossary">QC</span> Pro Bono Award. In a 2012 report of the BC Public Legal Education and Information Working Group, John-Paul was named as one of the six major providers of public legal education on family law in BC, along with the Legal Services Society, the Canadian Bar Association, the Ministry of Justice, the University of Victoria Law Centre and the Justice Education Society. ''[[JP Boyd on Family Law]]'' is the successor to John-Paul's long-time public legal education website, JP Boyd's BC Family Law Resource (www.bcfamilylawresource.com), first published in 2001.
John-Paul is a recipient of the CBA's National Pro Bono Service Award, the UBC Law Alumni Association's Outstanding Young Alumnus Award and the CBA British Columbia's Harry Rankin, <span class="noglossary">QC</span> Pro Bono Award. In a 2012 report of the BC Public Legal Education and Information Working Group, John-Paul was named as one of the six major providers of public legal education on family law in BC, along with the Legal Services Society, the Canadian Bar Association, the Ministry of Justice, the University of Victoria Law Centre and the Justice Education Society.  
 
''[[JP Boyd on Family Law]]'' is the successor to John-Paul's long-time public legal education website, JP Boyd's BC Family Law Resource (www.bcfamilylawresource.com), first published in 2001.


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JP Boyd
John-Paul Boyd,
www.jpboyd.com
John-Paul Boyd is the founding author of JP Boyd on Family Law and a member of the publication's editorial and advisory committees and the Clicklaw Wikibooks Advisory Committee. He is a family law arbitrator, a family law mediator and a parenting coordinator, providing services throughout Alberta and British Columbia. John-Paul practiced family law in Vancouver for 14 years before taking a position as the executive director of the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family, a non-profit organization affiliated with the University of Calgary, in 2013. He took his training as a mediator in 2005, as a parenting coordinator in 2007, as an arbitrator in 2011 and as a collaborative practitioner in 2012, and returned to full-time practice in 2018.

John-Paul is a fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers, and a member of the ADR Institute of Canada, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, the International Society of Family Law and the Canadian Bar Association. He presently serves on the CBA’s Children’s Law Committee and the CBA Alberta’s Access to Justice Committee, and is a jury member for the Walter Owen Book Prize awarded by the Canadian Foundation For Legal Research.

John-Paul regularly writes and lectures on family law topics for courts, law societies, bar associations and the public. He is a frequent speaker for the National Judicial Institute, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, the National Family Law Program, the Continuing Legal Education Society of BC, the Trial Lawyers Association of BC, and the Legal Education Society of Alberta, and has provided the family law course for upper-year law students at the University of Calgary. His written work has been published by organizations including the UBC Law Review, Canadian Family Law Quarterly, the International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, the Journal of International Aging, Law and Policy, The Advocate, the National Judicial Institute, the Nova Scotia Department of Justice, slaw.ca and The Lawyer’s Daily. He is a member of the advisory board of the Canadian Journal of Family Law and the author of Obtaining Reliable and Repeatable SSAG Calculations, published by the Department of Justice.

John-Paul is a recipient of the CBA's National Pro Bono Service Award, the UBC Law Alumni Association's Outstanding Young Alumnus Award and the CBA British Columbia's Harry Rankin, QC Pro Bono Award. In a 2012 report of the BC Public Legal Education and Information Working Group, John-Paul was named as one of the six major providers of public legal education on family law in BC, along with the Legal Services Society, the Canadian Bar Association, the Ministry of Justice, the University of Victoria Law Centre and the Justice Education Society.

JP Boyd on Family Law is the successor to John-Paul's long-time public legal education website, JP Boyd's BC Family Law Resource (www.bcfamilylawresource.com), first published in 2001.